Originally Posted by
brdad
I'm working on a dollhouse and using the carvewright to do a brick pattern on the walls (both sides). The sections are large, about a foot high and three feet long, which adds up to a litte over 2600 "bricks".
The horizontal lines it does real quick No problem there.
The short vertical lines are the issue. I started with separate lines, which carved quick on a small test piece but the software crashes on the full wall because there are too many items on it (I've had this happen on other projects as well). Anyway, my solution was to use the route tool, carving at .01" depth for .22" length, then 0" depth for .22 length, and repeat.
This is carving very well, but very slow. Designer predicts about 2 hours to carve, but the actual carve time is 4 hours and 45 minutes! Per side! And the reason is the routs. The bit goes down, carves for .22", which takes .25 second if that. Then the bit comes up and sits doing nothing for 4 seconds! 4 seconds X apx. 2600 vertical lines = 2.9 hours of wasted time per side, give or take. I have 5 of the 3 foot panels to do and six slightly smaller. What I expected would take 20 hours of carve time is going to end up taking close to 50 hours.
Assuming there is no better way to do this, I'm curious if the rout tool is any faster in the newer versions of designer? Doubt it but thought I'd ask.